Wrap-up post.

[alexandraerin]

Okay! Wow, what a day. Even though I modified my immediate goal for the day in terms of chapterage, I still finished in the exact same neck of the woods I'd initially aimed for in terms of word count. I got like 5,000 words of Chapter 4. (I'm guessing the stuff I'm holding back from the public draft are around 200 words) I've got 500ish words of a future encounter that will be worked in somewhere else in this story-week.

I've got 1,400 words of Chapter 5, and boy, did writing those words ever help confirm for me that the slowness in starting Chapter 4 was about negotiating the curves. They flowed. They flew. I am going to have no problem finishing that chapter, I can tell you.

Good day. Productive day. I'm thinking that Chapter 4 can still use another coat of polish, so what I will probably do is wake up tomorrow, look at it with fresh eyes, and hammer out a few bits before I post it. Right now it's very much a chapter of "and then stuff happened". I'm not opposed to "and then stuff happened". I'm a big fan of stuff and happenings, as anyone who reads MU regularly knows. But I want to make the important bits pop a bit more.

To take the "curve" metaphor in a different direction, the first three chapters are the cha-klunk-cha-klunk-cha-klunk up the first big hill of the roller coaster. It's a slow, steady climb and it might not be the most exciting thing but it gives you a nice view and anyway there's no getting around the necessity of it. Chapter four is when it's just cresting the top.

Which is to say, it's all downhill from here...

Comments

[janewilliams20.livejournal.com]

I've enjoyed those first few chapters. It's fun seeing how people have changed in the "gap", and the ways in which they've stayed the same. As you say - nice view.

[lizkayl.livejournal.com]

A completely random comment: I love your new panda baby bear icon!